Random ACC TV ratings figures/toughts

https://floridastate.forums.rivals.com/threads/more-twitter-stuff-re-acc-gor.130491/page-6#post-2171505

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/

rancekay

"The problem for Florida State is we are unlike any other university in the ACC.
The closest is Clemson but even they do not bring viewers to the level we do.

If you were able to sell the media rights of each school individually Florida State would destroy everyone else in the ACC:

Here is an example of Florida State playing the two worst teams in the ACC and how the ratings compared last year:

Florida State vs BC 3.148 million viewers
Florida State vs Wake Forest 1.273 Million viewers

In comparison:

BC vs Notre Dame 1.986 Million viewers
Wake Forest vs Notre Dame 1.942 million viewers
Wake Forest vs Clemson 780,000 viewers
Louisville vs Wake Forest 629,000 viewers
BC vs Clemson 465,000 viewers

The vast majority of BC and Wake Forest games are not on tv, but on ESPN3 because the networks did not think there was enough interest to televise their games.

When Florida State played Notre Dame in 2014 ESPN had 9,750 Million viewers. "

"For those that say schools like UNC, Pitt and Syracuse bring a lot to the table for football.

Here are so more ratings from last year to chew on:
LSU vs Alabama 11.063 Million viewers
Ohio State vs Michigan 10.830 Million viewers
Alabama vs Auburn 9.299 Million viewers
FSU vs Clemson 7.563 Million viewers
FSU vs Florida 4.280 Million Viewers
Miami vs FSU 3.502 Million viewers
Syracuse vs FSU 2.588 million viewers
USF vs FSU 2.216 million viewers
FSU vs Georgia Tech 1.943 million viewers
Memphis vs USF 1.155 million viewers
Duke vs UNC 742,000 viewers
Duke vs Virginia Tech 722,000 viewers
Temple vs ECU 679,000 viewers
Hawaii vs Boise State 610,000 viewers
Pittsburgh vs Syracuse 589,000 viewers
Miami vs Duke 490,000 viewers
UNC vs Georgia Tech 386,000 viewers
Arizona vs Colorado 288,000 viewers "

bcherod

"In all fairness, this is a partial list. On the full list there are a lot of surprises.

Look at October 31 and see that ND- Temple had more viewers than Georgia-Florida, Mississippi-Auburn,

October 24, the highest rated game is Tennessee- Alabama. tOSU is second against Rutgers. Meanwhile, FSU GTech is 8th.

For example. UNC - VT had higher ratings than ND-BC, followed by

Cal -Stanford
USC - Oregon
Tennessee -Missouri
Arizona-Arizona St.

One can go through the list and there are many different conclusions that can be drawn.

You can look at the full list here. http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/ "



"You are correct I did not include every game on my two posts (25 games), but I did include a large sample size.

I highly recommend everyone interested in seeing where the ACC stands please review the list from www.sportsmediawatch.com.

To me these are obvious observations:

1)The only way the ACC has large numbers of viewers is if an ACC school is competing against a big time out of conference school or it is a game involving Florida State, Notre Dame or Clemson.
2) With the exception of Clemson and Florida State the number of viewers for the ACC is rather pathetic.
3) The Pac12 also has pathetic numbers unless it involves one of their premier programs.
4) The SEC and the B10 deserve the large media deals because they bring a lot more viewers than the other the conferences.
5) Florida State's chances of bringing in revenue from media rights close to what schools in the B10 or SEC receive will not happen with Florida State being in the ACC unless major structural adjustments are made. "

"Not including:
Clemson/Florida State from the ACC
Ohio State/Michigan from the B10
Alabama/LSU from the SEC
Texas/Oklahoma from the B12
USC/Oregon from the Pac12


Here is another large sample:

SEC
South Carolina vs Georgia 3.189 million viewers
Tennesse vs Florida 4.641 million viewers
Ole Miss vs Florida 3.745 million viewers
Georgia vs Tennessee 4.884 million viewers
Georgia vs Florida 5.015 million viewers
Auburn vs Kentucky 2.226 million viewers
Arkansas vs Ole Miss 2.977 million viewers
Missouri vs Arkansas 2.390 Million viewers
Big 10
Michigan State vs Nebraska 3.470 million viewers
Iowa vs Wisconsin 2.637 million viewers
Penn State vs Michigan State 4.503 million viewers
Iowa vs Nebraska 6.189 Million viewers
Iowa vs Indiana 1.883 million viewers
Big12
Baylor vs TCU 5.108 Million viewers
Oklahoma State vs Iowa State 1.741 million viewers
Oklahoma State vs Texas Tech 2.513 million viewers
West Virginia vs Baylor 2.195 million viewers
Baylor vs Oklahoma State 4.227 million viewers
Pac 12
California vs Utah 2.820 million viewers
Arizona State vs Utah 3.059 million viewers
Washington State vs UCLA 1.923 Million viewers
Arizona State vs UCLA 2.162 million viewers
Washington State vs Washington 1.538 million viewers
ACC
NC State vs Virginia Tech 1.523 million viewers
Miami vs Duke 490,000 viewers
UNC vs Pittsburgh 1.247 million viewers
Duke vs UNC 742,000 viewers
UNC vs Virginia Tech 2.086 million viewers


As you can see from above the other conferences beat us handily in those viewing their games compared to those viewing games in the ACC.
Gene has said this many times before we are the most top heavy league of the power 5 and the ratings clearly reflect it.

If I am a network executive I would pay the ACC the least amount to televise their games of the power 5. The B10 and SEC should get at least double the revenue the ACC receives for football media rights.

This is why Florida State can not accept status quo and/or extend the GOR without major concessions from the ACC that are self serving to Florida State. "


"I didn't include Notre Dame because they are not in our conference(I only used conference games) and I took the top 2 schools out of each league because a poster said you would see similar numbers if you took out the top two from each conference, but as you can see that is not the case. As for Louisville I only put one of their games in my samples but they do not have great numbers either. Even when they played the top two schools their numbers were on par with Boston College.


Florida State vs Louisville 2.852 million viewers
Clemson vs Louisville 1.938 million viewers
Louisville vs Wake Forest 629,000 viewers

I would love it if the ACC had the best tv ratings but unfortunately they have the worst of the power 5 and when you compare it to the B10 and the SEC it is rather pathetic.

Florida State and to a little bit lesser extent Clemson deserve better than what the ACC offers with equal revenue sharing of media rights. "

"I am only including conference games and Notre Dame is not in our conference.
If Notre Dame was in our conference that would substantially help our conference game ratings. The ratings for Notre Dame and Clemson were huge as was the Notre Dame Texas game.

I don't know what the exact numbers are, but from what I can see the ACC conference football games are nowhere close to 80% of the viewers the B10 and SEC get.

Also, I checked out the Conference Basketball championship games. I assumed the ACC would be number 1, but the SEC beat us out slightly.

The numbers were higher than I expected(a 1.0 rating equals 1,156,000 households):
SEC basketball championship 2.9 rating
ACC basketball championship 2.8 rating
B10 basketball championship 2.4 rating
B12 basketball championship 2.4 rating

I welcome everyone to check out www.sportmediawatch.com to come to their own conclusions. "